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tbese duly appeared in 1808.* It is known that 

 lie was most careful to re-read and correct his 

 ■writings ; for he states that, in the course of the 

 ten years during which he kept the manuscript of 

 his 'Forest Scenery,' it received 'frequent revisal.' 

 The fact that Sir Thomas Dick Lauder omitted 

 the whole of the additions and corrections made 

 by Gilpin greatly detracts, unfortunately, from the 

 value of his Edition, which is, moreover, over- 

 loaded with notes, many of which, though in 

 some degree relevant to the subject-matter of 

 Gilpin's work, are altogether uncalled for, and, 

 in consequence, make constant and unseasonable 

 interruption in the pleasant flow of the text. In 

 the Edition of 1834', in fact, it is not so much 

 Gilpin as Lauder who is prominent throughout, 

 and a considerable portion of the Editor's notes 

 is taken up with a descriptive enumeration of 

 trees, which would have been more in place in a 

 horticultural handbook than amongst the pages of 

 the delightful Author of the ' Forest Scenery.' In 

 many essential points, too, in Lauder's Edition, no 



* We learn from Mr. Garnett that the edition of 1808 is not 

 in the British Museum. 



